Dorothy L Newman Education Fund

Dorothy L Newman

This Scholarship assists people who have been diagnosed as having MS and as a result are unable to continue in their present employment, who need to change their employment and undergo a course of retraining in order to do so.

$15,000 is available for distribution and two applicants will be eligible for up to $7,500 each payable for their course fees for three years of study.

MSSNZ has made some minor changes to the criteria for this year. Applications will now be open solely to people with MS needing to retrain for paid employment.

Applicants will be required to explain in a statement in their application the reasons why they chose their course of study, how they intend to use their qualification on successful completion of their course and the likelihood of employment following the course.

Applications for the Dorothy Newman Scholarship fund for this year (2009 academic year) have now closed and we are in the process of selecting the winners. 

Applications for the 2010 scholarships (for the 2010 academic year) will be advertised in July 2009.

» Read information on previous year's winners.